EPIC

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Human joy
Will last for a little;
the sorrow
Goes on.
 
But if there are two the sorrow
Is share; the burden
Lightened.
 
Yet for some sorrow
To have a partner in it
Doubles the sorrow.
 
So she could be a crutch
To his illness; he a sling
In her bereavements.
 
But the hunger, the craving,
The childlessness meant
Two sorrows to them.

But there was an inkling
Of a Third to share with:
For she prayed.